This guest post is published around the Association for Asian Studies conference in Washington D.C., occurring March 22-25, 2018. #AAS2018 In the eighteenth-century, the scholar Mirza Khan observed that India had many languages, …
Read More >Rooting poetry beyond location and historical time, Jerome Rothenberg’s seminal compilation Technicians of the Sacred has educated and inspired poets, artists, musicians, and other readers—from Allen Ginsberg to Nick Cave—for generations, exposing them to the …
Read More >These past several weeks we’ve revisited Infinite City and Unfathomable City, and made our first foray into New York City with the Wildlife map. Today we’re celebrating Queens, the largest (in area) of the five …
Read More >Planet Money‘s recent episode, “Why Are Credit Card Agreements So Long?”, brought up the vexing issue of legal contracts, and why, paradoxically, making credit card statements simpler also makes them longer. Perhaps …
Read More >Susan Schaller, author of A Man Without Words, recently appeared on WNYC’s Radiolab for a show about language. Fans of Radiolab will love this episode, which examines the conundrums of language in …
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